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<div><b>Mierle Laderman Ukeles</b> Best known for her decades-long
role as the official, unsalaried artist-in-residence at the New York
City Department of Sanitation.</div>
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Sanitation Performance</i>, 1979-1980, "Handshake Ritual" with
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<div><b>Mierle Laderman Ukeles</b> became the official
artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation in
1977. Since then, she has created art that deals with the endless
maintenance and service work that "keeps the city alive."
Written 50 years ago and in a single sitting, her manifesto laid out
the hidden yet essential role of maintenance in Western society-and
the radical implications of actively valuing rather than dismissing or
hiding it. Her writing predicted a deep concern with reproductive
labor found across feminist thought, contemporary art, and the
activism that falls under the banner of "care" work. This event
celebrates the anniversary of the manifesto while looking back at how
the concepts presented in the manifesto have been present in Ukeles'
artwork as well as finding points of convergence with current
artistic, social and environmental movements.</div>
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<div>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mierle_Laderman_Ukeles</div>
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